why slackware is so Unix like?

JonCooperUK · 04-13-2004, 06:15 AM

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Originally posted by philosphrstone
I like yahoo messenger though, and the rpm that yahoo provides kinda pushes me into using something else on this distro however... grrrr!

Try typing rpm2tgz filename.rpm which will convert the rpm to a tgz package. This can then be installed using the installpkg filename.tgz command.

philosphrstone · 04-13-2004, 03:12 PM

yeah, I tried that actually, but it gave me a long list of dependency errors. I know there is a way to try to force it, but I haven't tried that yet....

Otherwise, Slack is treating me really well. I got my Nvidia drivers all compiled and installed, and UT2003 runs the best I have ever seen on my hardware, and I have played it under Win2K, WinXP, and Mandrake 9.1 before now.

philosphrstone · 04-13-2004, 04:21 PM

Quick update, Yahoo messenger installs just fine using rpm as long as you remember to do the --nodeps switch... otherwise it is exactly the same as any other distro... Yay!

New to slack, not goin back!

American Psycho · 04-14-2004, 12:12 AM

simple, slack was meant to stay towards it's roots